1. The History of Technology Time Line 1900 - Present 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 1900 2020 Click the Decade to see each strand in that Decade
2. 1900 - 1910 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 The First Wave Agricultural Age George Washington Carver The Model T Pavlov Antiquities Act of 1906 Flatiron Building Elementary School Teddy Bear Ford GM
3. 1910-1920 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 The First Wave Agricultural Age Ends around 1920 with the Invention of the Assembly Line Mechanical Pencil super heterodyne radio circuit Watson Bobbit Grand Central opened Art Nouveau period Titanic Sank National Women’s Party Formed Skinner Boeing L.L. Bean
4. 1920 - 1930 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 The Second Wave Industrial Age Robot invented Insulin Invented Television Tolman Pressey Chrysler Building Miss America Disney NBC Art Deco
5. 1930 - 1940 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 The Second Wave Continued Industrial Age Spiral Notebook Ball point pen Tyler Bagely Monopoly Dick and Jane Tupperware Hewlett-Packard National Art Gallery Public Works Of Art
6. 1940 - 1950 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 The Second Wave Industrial Age computers Velcro Baby Boom TV Dinners Rockefeller Center Abstract Expressionism Military Production Transistor
7. 1950 - 1960 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 The Second Wave Industrial Age Overhead Projector Barcode Skinner Bloom Rosa Parks Televisions 17 Million Suburb For Soldiers United Nations Laser Credit Card
8. 1960 - 1970 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 The Second Wave Industrial Age The Third Wave Information Age LCD Projector Compact Disc Bruner Keller Plan To Kill a Mockingbird Phonics Gateway Arch Andy Warhol Sesame Street Wal-Mart
9. 1970 - 1980 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 The Third Wave Information Age Calculators Grade book Software Rubik Cube Education of all handicapped Children Act of 1975 Alice Aycock Sears Starbucks Microsoft
10. 1980 - 1990 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 The Third Wave Information Age Post-it Notes Windows created Gardner Papert Columbia University Accepts Women Columbia Spacecraft Launched Irises Museum of Modern Art CNN First Personal Computer
11. 1990 - 2000 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 The Third Wave Information Age Internet Interactive Board Columbine G.E. Goes Online Amazon Interactive computer- Assisted performance CAD CAM Internet Takes off
12. 2000 - 2010 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 The Fourth Wave Communication Age IPod YouTube LODAS Merrienboer Kmart Amazon First Profit Comcast Digital Art Michael Jackson